Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-21
THAT MUTlNY.
TIE DIRECTORS or THE NORTH CARO-,
LIMA PRKIrEHrrARy DISCUSS II.
Applications for Coavicss to Work on
Public Improvements The Agrieal-
tural College Failures Storms.



RArEIaH. N. c., April 20.--The iii
rcctors Of the penitentiary met this
morning at the prison, and were in ses-
sion ell day. The matter OF the recent
mutiny was considered. The sonvicts
concerned in il were ordered to be
punished by close confinement and
bread-and- water diet. The ringleaders
are to be vet more severely punished
The punishment began to-day. Captain
Stamps, president Of the board, says
that the conyicts in rebellion are now
entirely submissive. Much Of the ses-
SION OF the board was devoted to hear
ing applications for convicts. Gentle
men from the eastern counties
Of Brunswick, Sampson, Lenoir,
and Carteret appeared and applied for
oil the 325 convicts allowed by the late
Legislature for the great scheme OF ca
nal and road improvement in that sec
ton, or in any event for enough to car
nv on the work. The board informed
these gentlemen that the penltentiary
was so cramped as to finances that 1t
would have to hire ont most of its con-
victs and could not act in the matter
at present, but must first see how much
il can obtain from the hire of outside
convicts
The be- ard has made contract for
the hire of $50 convicts TO the Cape
Fear and Yadkin- Valley railway until
November LIST. and two other contracts
of the same character with other cor
porations are pending. Speaker Web
ster made application for a hundred
convicts TO build road from Went
worth to some point on the Cape-Fear
and Yadkin-Valley railroad, and SEN
ator Pou applied for fifty for a turn
pike in Johnston county Neither of
these applications were acted on.
The strikers on the water-works here
resumed work ut the old rate of pay
nntil the contractor hears from the
owners Of the works in regard to an
increase Of pay. Many new men had
been employed. These were not dis
placed to make room for the strikers,
so good many of the latter are thrown
ont of work.
Stevens, Bray & Co.'S gin and grist-
mills, in Camden. county, have been
burned. Loss, 81, 800 no insurance.
CURRENT NBws.
A good deal OF feeling, one way or
another, has been aroused here by the
strikes of the water-works laborers and
the bricklayers The former did not,
as rule, belong to the Knights Of La
Dor, while the lstter did in every in
stance. The latter struck against
Knights-of-Labor bosses. Nearly all
the strikers were colored. There is a
very strong sentiment against strikes
on the part of most of the people here.
Thousands of false reports have been
current through the city concerning
the penitentiary revolt since Saturday
night One widely current yesterday
among negroes was that Jim Davis, the
negro convict who was by force dis
armed, had died of his injuries. 1t
was an absolute falsehood. Davis was
discharged from the hospital yesterday
and was again put ut work.
The first box of peas was shipped
from Newberne Tuesday. The crop
will not be anything like the average
in size, yet much better than was con-
sidered possible when the frosts struck
it.
There have been few assignments in
the State during the current year.
The number in the past seven days has
been greater than at other times.
Three assignments, all small, are re-
ported from Greensboro w. A.
Horney, jeweller, to II. Il. Stokes-as-
sets not known, and preferred creditors,
1900; g. H. Register, dry goods, &C.,
to James T. Boyd and w. b. Farrar-
assets not known, and preferred credit
ors, "a, 200 and II. +. Boyd& Co., gene
raj merchants. to L. W. Andrews-as- |
sets and liabilities not known. AT !
Leaksville A. Hodge, general mer-
chant, has asNgned-assets not stated,
liabilities, $500. Business generally
appears to be in satisfactory condi-
ton throughout the State, and the
prospect is frightened by the fact that
good crops are reasonably certain.
The State Board of Agriculture met
at 10 O'Clock this morning-GovernOr
Scales presiding. The various reports
were read. The trustees of the State
Agricultural and Mechanical College
met with the board. Jointly they COM
pose the board of directors, which has
full management of the college. Mr..
W. S. Primrose, as chairman OF the
committee to visit various other colleges
of that class, made full and certainly
well prepared report, wherein he gave
the result of his own observations as
well as those of his associates on the
committee. Messrs. II. L. Fries and G.
W. Dabney.
The storms to which reference was
made in yesterdays Dispatch as having
passed through large extent Of terri |
tory south of Raleigh last Monday |
were really small cyclones, it appears. |
In southern Wake, Chatham, and John
ston the storm tore through the woods,
leaving belts where all the trees were |
twisted off and piled in all directions.
People were greatly frightened. There
was considerable electricity in the at
mosphere. 1t is the first real storm of |
the year In Chatham John Knights |
store was blown TO pieces, and its con-
tents destroyed or badly damaged.
Persons who came in on the trains !
this morning report large fires as raging /
in Moore county, near the Raleigh and
Augusta Airline. The scene last
night was grand There were miles of |
fire. Valuable pine timber is ruined in
large tracts, while some turpentine dis
tilleries have been burned, as well as
some turpentine and rosin stored in
"yards."
Shooting at Railroad Train.